在我的例子中，systemctl stop docker然后systemctl start docker以某种方式自动释放空间/var/lib/docker/*

Docker显然为运行的容器保留了映像的旧版本的映像层。如果你更新运行中的容器的镜像(相同的标签)而没有停止它，可能会发生这种情况，例如:

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

在更新之前运行docker-compose down解决了它，停机时间在我的情况下不是一个问题。

警告:不要在生产系统中使用

/# df
...
/dev/xvda1      51467016 39384516   9886300  80% /
...

好的，让我们先尝试系统修剪

#/ docker system prune --volumes
...
/# df
...
/dev/xvda1      51467016 38613596  10657220  79% /
...

不太好，好像清理了几兆。让我们疯狂起来吧:

/# sudo su
/# service docker stop
/# cd /var/lib/docker
/var/lib/docker# rm -rf *
/# service docker start
/var/lib/docker# df
...
/dev/xvda1      51467016 8086924  41183892  17% /
...

好了! 只需要记住，除了一次性服务器，不建议使用这种方法。此时，Docker的内部数据库将无法找到任何这些覆盖，这可能会导致意想不到的后果。

我发现这个方法最适合我:

docker image prune --all

默认情况下，Docker不会删除已命名的图像，即使它们未使用。该命令将删除未使用的映像。

注意，图像中的每一层都是/usr/lib/docker/overlay2/文件夹中的一个文件夹。

朋友们，为了保持一切清洁，你可以使用命令:

docker system prune -a && docker volume prune

我使用了“docker system prune -a”，它清洗了卷和overlay2下的所有文件

    [root@jasontest volumes]# docker system prune -a
    WARNING! This will remove:
            - all stopped containers
            - all networks not used by at least one container
            - all images without at least one container associated to them
            - all build cache
    Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
    Deleted Images:
    untagged: ubuntu:12.04
    untagged: ubuntu@sha256:18305429afa14ea462f810146ba44d4363ae76e4c8dfc38288cf73aa07485005
    deleted: sha256:5b117edd0b767986092e9f721ba2364951b0a271f53f1f41aff9dd1861c2d4fe
    deleted: sha256:8c7f3d7534c80107e3a4155989c3be30b431624c61973d142822b12b0001ece8
    deleted: sha256:969d5a4e73ab4e4b89222136eeef2b09e711653b38266ef99d4e7a1f6ea984f4
    deleted: sha256:871522beabc173098da87018264cf3e63481628c5080bd728b90f268793d9840
    deleted: sha256:f13e8e542cae571644e2f4af25668fadfe094c0854176a725ebf4fdec7dae981
    deleted: sha256:58bcc73dcf4050a4955916a0dcb7e5f9c331bf547d31e22052f1b5fa16cf63f8
    untagged: osixia/openldap:1.2.1
    untagged: osixia/openldap@sha256:6ceb347feb37d421fcabd80f73e3dc6578022d59220cab717172ea69c38582ec
    deleted: sha256:a562f6fd60c7ef2adbea30d6271af8058c859804b2f36c270055344739c06d64
    deleted: sha256:90efa8a88d923fb1723bea8f1082d4741b588f7fbcf3359f38e8583efa53827d
    deleted: sha256:8d77930b93c88d2cdfdab0880f3f0b6b8be191c23b04c61fa1a6960cbeef3fe6
    deleted: sha256:dd9f76264bf3efd36f11c6231a0e1801c80d6b4ca698cd6fa2ff66dbd44c3683
    deleted: sha256:00efc4fb5e8a8e3ce0cb0047e4c697646c88b68388221a6bd7aa697529267554
    deleted: sha256:e64e6259fd63679a3b9ac25728f250c3afe49dbe457a1a80550b7f1ccf68458a
    deleted: sha256:da7d34d626d2758a01afe816a9434e85dffbafbd96eb04b62ec69029dae9665d
    deleted: sha256:b132dace06fa7e22346de5ca1ae0c2bf9acfb49fe9dbec4290a127b80380fe5a
    deleted: sha256:d626a8ad97a1f9c1f2c4db3814751ada64f60aed927764a3f994fcd88363b659
    untagged: centos:centos7
    untagged: centos@sha256:2671f7a3eea36ce43609e9fe7435ade83094291055f1c96d9d1d1d7c0b986a5d
    deleted: sha256:ff426288ea903fcf8d91aca97460c613348f7a27195606b45f19ae91776ca23d
    deleted: sha256:e15afa4858b655f8a5da4c4a41e05b908229f6fab8543434db79207478511ff7

    Total reclaimed space: 533.3MB
    [root@jasontest volumes]# ls -alth
    total 32K
    -rw-------  1 root root  32K May 23 21:14 metadata.db
    drwx------  2 root root 4.0K May 23 21:14 .
    drwx--x--x 14 root root 4.0K May 21 20:26 ..